Khamenei: Iran Against US Intervention in Iraq

Iran's top leader rejected possible intervention in Iraq by the United States or any other outside power, accusing Washington on Sunday of trying to manipulate Iraqi sectarian differences to retake control of the country it once occupied....

"American authorities are trying to portray this as a sectarian war, but what is happening in Iraq is not a war between Shi'ite and Sunnis,"

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'The US aims to bring its own blind followers to power since the US is not happy about the current government in Iraq.," Khamenei said. Photo: Khamenei Official Website Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday he is against US intervention in neighboring Iraq, where Islamic extremists and Sunni militants opposed to Tehran have seized a number of towns and cities,...

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Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is against US intervention in neighboring Iraq, where Islamic extremists and Sunni militants opposed to Tehran have seized a number of towns and cities. "We strongly oppose the intervention of the U.S. and others in the domestic affairs of...

TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Sunday rejected possible intervention in Iraq by the United States or any other outside power, accusing Washington of trying to manipulate Iraqi sectarian differences to retake control of the country it once occupied. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that arrogant Western powers led by the US are behind the ongoing sedition in Iraq and dismissed any...

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US Expands Airstrikes on ISIS in Iraq - Video

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US Expands Airstrikes on ISIS in Iraq - Video

Video news form Iraq: US expands airstrikes against ISIS.
U.S. jets have bombed Islamic State targets southwest of Baghdad, in an expansion of the U.S. campaign against the militant group in Iraq.
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'ISIS gives US excuse to intervene & destabilize whole region'

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'ISIS gives US excuse to intervene

'ISIS gives US excuse to intervene & destabilize whole region'

America's fighter jets have carried out new offensive strikes on militant positions just outside the Iraqi capital. Iran has rejected the possibility of cooperating with Washington in fighting with IS...

World leaders pledge to help Iraq fight ISIL.

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World leaders pledge to help Iraq fight ISIL.

Thirty countries have pledged to help Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) "by any means necessary", as leaders gathered to discuss a strategy against the group.
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US Expands Airstrikes on ISIS in Iraq - Video

Video news form Iraq: US expands airstrikes against ISIS.
U.S. jets have bombed Islamic State targets southwest of Baghdad, in an expansion of the U.S. campaign against the militant group in Iraq.
The Pentagon said late Monday this is the first strike as part of an expanded effort to go beyond protecting U.S. personnel and interests, as Islamic State goes on the offensive.
Another airstrike was carried out near Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq.
President Barack Obama told the nation last week that the U.S. would expand its military effort against Islamic State and lead a relentless effort to destroy the militants wherever they exist.
Obama has authorized airstrikes on Islamic State in Syria, but has not yet decided whether to launch them.
A senior official has warned Syria not to interfere with U.S. air action, saying the U.S. could retaliate against Syrian air defense systems.
Obama has ruled out working with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against Islamic State, which is fighting to topple him. The U.S. regards President Assad as an illegitimate leader and a criminal.
About 30 countries have pledged to support Iraq in its fight against Islamic State militants by "all means necessary," including military aid.
In a statement following a Monday conference in Paris on the crisis, diplomats said aid should come in line with "needs expressed by the Iraqi authorities, in accordance with international law and without jeopardizing civilian security."
Paris Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq, nations represented, Sept. 15, 2014
Paris Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq, nations represented, Sept. 15, 2014
The meeting highlighted the "urgent" need to remove the Islamic State group from regions where it has established itself in Iraq. The officials also agreed to continue and increase emergency humanitarian aid to Iraqi authorities.
The conference included officials from about 30 countries, the United Nations, European Union and the Arab League.
It is the latest step in an effort to build a coalition to battle the Islamic State group, which has taken over large areas in northern and western Iraq as well as eastern Syria.
French President Francois Hollande said there is "no time to lose" in the fight against Islamic State militants. As he spoke on Monday, French jets carried out their first reconnaissance flights over areas where the militants are operating in Iraq.
Besides posing a threat to the Middle East, the Islamic State group is a menace for Western nations like France, where authorities estimate roughly 1,000 people have left to join the jihadist movement, Hollande added.
The talks followed a tour of the Middle East by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to gain support for President Barack Obama's plan to deal with Islamic State militants.
Kerry said a growing number of countries are prepared to join the fight, including several Arab nations offering to give military aid and carry out airstrikes, if needed.
Neither Syria nor Iran were invited to the conference.
On Monday, the United States ruled out military coordination with Iran involving Islamic State militants in Iraq but said it is open to future talks.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the U.S. ambassador in Iraq asked for Iran's cooperation, but that the request was rejected because the U.S. has "dirty hands."
Iraqi President Fouad Massoum urged world powers to pursue Islamic State militants wherever they are. They must not be allowed any sanctuary, he said.
Massoum said Iraq welcomed humanitarian and military support to fight the militants, including airstrikes, but he ruled out ground troops.
He highlighted the importance of taking action against the Islamic State group, saying it is "in the interest of everyone."
"If this group installs itself in Iraq, this will create of a lot of problems in Iraq, the region and the world," Massoum said. "We must try to be helped by other countries so there is international mobilization against this group that wants to install itself in Iraq and from there unleash itself on the world."
Massoum said he thinks Iran should have been invited, given the long shared border with Iraq and the humanitarian aid Iran has been providing during the crisis.
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IRAQ: ISIS MOVES CLOSER TO BAGHDAD

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ITS ANOTHER VIOLENT DAY IN IRAQ.
TERRORIST GROUP ISIS IS BELIEVED TO HAVE KILLED AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE AND INJURED 34 OTHERS.
THE SHELLING ATTACK HAPPENED SUNDAY AT A MILITARY RECRUITING STATION JUST 60 MILES SOUTH OF BAGHDAD.
REPORTER MARY MUELLER HAS THE LATEST.
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IRAQI SECURITY OFFICIALS SAY ISIS NOW CONTROLS A STRATEGIC BORDER CROSSING FROM SYRIA INTO IRAQ AND A NUMBER OF OTHER TOWNS IN THE WESTERN PROVINCE OF ANBAR.
ONE TOWN BELIEVED TO BE TAKEN OVER BY ISIS LIES ON THE IRAQ-JORDAN BORDER.
AND IF IRAQI FORCES CAN'T HOLD THE CHECKPOINT THERE ...ISIS COULD THREATEN NEARBY JORDAN AND SAUDI ARABIA.
No country is safe from that kind of spread of terror.
SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY SPOKE IN CAIRO SUNDAY WITH EGYPT'S PRESIDENT ON THE SITUATION IN IRAQ.
HE ASKED ARAB COUNTRIES TO RESIST FUNDING SUNNI MILITANTS.
ISIS IS ADVANCING AND SOURCES SAY THE GROUP IS CLOSING IN ON BAGHDAD.
SO IRAQI FORCES ARE MOVING TOWARDS THE CAPITAL.
THIS VIDEO APPEARS TO SHOW THEM DESTROYING ISIS' VEHICLES.
BUT IRAQI FORCES HAVE WITHDRAWN FROM SEVERAL TOWNS AS THEY AWAIT MORE TROOPS.
THEY ARE ALSO FACING SOME LOCAL TRIBES IN THE COUNTRY WHO SUPPORT ISIS.
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS SENDING ABOUT 300 U.S. MILITARY ADVISERS TO THE COUNTRY.
THEY'LL GATHER INTELLIGENCE AND ADVISE IRAQI FORCES, IN WHAT MANY SAY IS PROTECTING US INTERESTS.
BUT FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY SAYS MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE IN SYRIA...HELPING THE RESISTANCE WITH WEAPONS AND TRAINING.
When we're arguing over 300 advisers when the request had been for 20,000 in order to do the job right I'm not sure we've really addressed the problem.
STILL, SOME POLITICIANS BELIEVE THE U.S. SHOULD NOT GET INVOLVED FURTHER IN IRAQ BECAUSE ISIS ISN'T A DIRECT THREAT.
I'M MARY MUELLER REPORTING.
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ALTHOUGH IRAQ'S GOVERNMENT WAS EAGER FOR THE U.S. HELP...IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER...AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI..SAYS HE "STRONGLY OPPOSES" U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION.
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IRAQ CRISIS Rutba LATEST WESTERN town to fall to ISIS BBC WORLD NEWS 2014

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'ISIS gives US excuse to intervene & destabilize whole region'

America's fighter jets have carried out new offensive strikes on militant positions just outside the Iraqi capital. Iran has rejected the possibility of cooperating with Washington in fighting with ISIS. The Supreme leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called Obama's strategy shallow and biased. Soraya Sepaphour-Ulrich, a prominent researched and expert on the country, joins RT to talk more on that.
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World leaders pledge to help Iraq fight ISIL.

Thirty countries have pledged to help Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) "by any means necessary", as leaders gathered to discuss a strategy against the group.
French President Francois Hollande called for a global response to counter ISIL on Monday, as he opened a conference on Iraq, bringing together members of a US-led coalition.
"[The threat] is global so the response must be global," the French leader said, at a Paris conference of some 30 countries aimed at coordinating a strategy against the group, which has taken control of parts of Northern Iraq and has a power base in Syria.
Foreign ministers from the main European states, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Iraq's neighbours and Gulf Arab states Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE, are in Paris to discuss broad political, security and humanitarian aspects of tackling ISIL.
... We ask to continue the air strikes against the terrorist positions. We will not give them any safe haven.
- Fouad Massoum, president of Iraq
"In holding this conference, the countries meeting today are showing their solidarity and the will to protect themselves against terrorism," Hollande added in a joint news conference with Iraqi President Fouad Massoum.
Massoum said ISIL fighters were responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed in Iraq's history.
"We should spend more efforts, and therefore we ask to continue the air strikes against the terrorist positions. We will not give them any safe haven," Massoum added.
Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba, reporting from Paris, said that the statements released by the two leaders were not specific in terms of military action.
"What is really crucial is not who is going to carry out the air strikes but who will provide financial and military assistance. Can it be effective without the involvement of Iran? What we can expect to happen is more and more Arab states will promise cash and soldiers ... How many states will provide direct military assistance is the question?"
The conference convened as Tehran claimed it had rejected a US request to cooperate against ISIL, citing Washington's "evil intentions", despite the US insisting it would not coordinate militarily with Iran.
"The United States asked through its ambassador in Iraq whether we could cooperate against [ISIL]... I said no, because they have dirty hands," Iran's leading religious and political figure, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said.
Long-term vision
French officials say the coalition against ISIL must go beyond military and humanitarian action, arguing there must also be a political plan for once IS has been weakened in Iraq.
They argue that the 2003 US-led intervention in Iraq, in which Paris did not participate, ultimately contributed to the current crisis because it lacked a long-term vision for the different strands of Iraqi society.
France has said it is ready to join US air strikes in Iraq but says legal and military limitations make it more difficult in Syria, where ISIL's main power base lies.
On Monday, French aircraft will begin reconnaissance flights over Iraq, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said before the start of the conference in Paris.
"We told the Iraqis we were available and asked them for authorisation [to fly over Iraq]," Fabius told France Inter radio, confirming that the first flights from a French base in Abu Dhabi would begin on Monday.
Ibrahim Sharqieh of the Brookings Institute told Al Jazeera that adding Arab countries to the fight against ISIL was crucial for the legitimacy to the coalition.
"Gulf countries are key in this intervention and they have announced their support," Sharqieh said.
"The other key country is Jordan. It was no surprise that Francois Hollande mentioned Jordan in his speech because they bring with them many aspects; one is legitimacy, another is intelligence, and finally the strength of security forces and their ability to deal with situation."

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Iran Rejects U.S. Bid to Coordinate Against ISIS

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected a U.S. bid to coordinate efforts to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
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Just hours after being released from the hospital following prostate surgery, Khamenei sent a series of tweets from his official Twitter account criticizing President Obama's push to a build a coalition to "degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS." Several international leaders have gathered in Paris today to forge an international coalition against the extremists. Neither Iran nor Syria were invited, according to the AP. Khamenei called the strategy "empty, shallow and biased."
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IRAQ's neighbours alarmed by jihadists' rapid gains | BREAKING NEWS.

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U.S airstrikes target Islamic State in Iraq

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The United States launched airstrikes in Iraq on Monday in what defense officials said is the start of an expanded action against Islamic State extremists.
The U.S. military's Central Command said both fighter and attack aircraft conducted separate airstrikes Sunday and Monday in support of Iraqi forces southwest of Baghdad and near Sinjar, Iraq.
The strikes were described as the first to provide direct aid for Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic militant group, as previous actions were conducted to protect U.S. personnel and interests. Iraqi forces requested assistance when they came under fire from militants.
President Obama last week announced that a broader campaign would seek to "degrade and ultimately destroy'' the Islamic State group, which sometimes is referred to by the acronym ISIL or ISIS.
In total, the strikes destroyed six vehicles near Sinjar and an ISIL fighting position southwest of Baghdad that was firing on Iraqi personnel, the military said in a statement. All U.S. aircraft exited the strike areas safely.
"The airstrike southwest of Baghdad was the first strike taken as part of our expanded efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions to hit ISIL targets as Iraqi forces go on offense, as outlined in the President's speech last Wednesday,'' the U.S. Central Command's statement said.
No U.S. forces on ground called in the air strike, officials said.
Since air strikes began last month, the attacks had been centered on Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq, near dams at Mosul and Haditha and to protect refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar.
Secretary of State John Kerry met Monday in Paris with diplomatic leaders from more than a dozen countries as the administration tries to round up allies to help battle the extremists.
U.S. forces have carried out a total of 162 airstrikes across Iraq, the military said.
The CIA estimates Islamic State has access to 20,000 and 31,500 fighters in Iraq and Syria.
In Paris, where other nations were pledging support, Kerry said the United States was open to talks with Iran about a role but ruled out military coordination.
"That doesn't mean that we are opposed to the idea of communicating to find out if they will come on board, or under what circumstances, or whether there is the possibility of a change," Kerry told reporters.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday that he had rejected U.S. overtures to join a coalition against the Islamic State extremists because Americans have "evil intentions and dirty hands."
Khamenei, speaking to reporters upon his release from a Tehran hospital after prostate surgery, said Washington's aim in building up an international group to fight in Iraq and Syria is to create "a playground where they can enter freely and bomb at will."
Iran opposes the Islamic State but is wary of working with the United States to oppose it. The U.S., in turn, has said it will not coordinate militarily with Iran in the fight against the Islamic Statemilitants

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published:17 Sep 2014

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World leaders pledge Iraq support.

A summit of international foreign ministers has pledged to help Iraq fight Islamic State (IS) militants "by all means necessary".
A joint statement by the 30 countries taking part in the Paris talks said support would include "appropriate military assistance".
The talks had been called to agree a strategy to combat the group.
The conference followed a whirlwind tour of the Middle East by US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Mr Kerry, who attended the summit, has been drumming up support for a plan of action unveiled by President Barack Obama last week.
The murder of British aid worker David Haines by IS militants, shown in a video released by the group on Saturday, has added momentum to the plans, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris.
Opening the summit, French President Francois Hollande said the threat posed by IS militants needed a global response.
"The terrorist threat is global and the response must be global," he said. "There is no time to lose.''
Islamic State controls large parts of Iraq and Syria. The CIA estimates that the group could have as many as 30,000 fighters in the region.
'Bigger threat'
Iraqi President Fuad Masum, who co-hosted the conference with Mr Hollande, said the international community must pursue the jihadists "quickly".
"If this intervention and support to Iraq is late, that means that Islamic State could occupy more territory and the threat it poses will be even bigger," he said.
The summit closed a few hours later with a joint statement saying the participants were "committed to supporting the new Iraqi government in its fight... by any means necessary, including appropriate military assistance".
Earlier, France said it had begun surveillance flights over Iraq. Britain revealed in August that its aircraft had been gathering intelligence over Iraq.
Several Arab countries have offered to take part in air strikes on IS fighters in Iraq, US officials say.
Turkey, however, will only allow humanitarian and logistical operations from the Nato air base on its soil.
Mr Kerry said he was "extremely encouraged" by promises of military assistance to tackle the militant group.
The US strategy to weaken the group centres on military support for Iraq but also includes plans to stop foreign fighters from joining the group, cutting its funding streams and trying to counter its ideology.
The Paris conference was aimed at defining the role each member state will play.
About 40 countries have so far signed up to a coalition including 10 Arab states - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Neither Iran nor Syria are being allowed to take part.
Last week Mr Kerry ruled out co-operation with Iran citing its "engagement in Syria and elsewhere".
But Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran had rejected a US request for co-operation early in Islamic State's advance into Iraq.
"I said no, because they have dirty hands," he said.
Australia announced at the weekend that it was sending 600 troops and up to eight fighter jets to the UAE ahead of possible combat operations in Iraq.
However, Mr Kerry told US broadcaster CBS that the US was not seeking troops on the ground at the moment.
Since August, US fighter jets have conducted about 160 air strikes on IS positions in Iraq.

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Iran arrests 'Afghans and Pakistanis joining Islamic State'

Iran says it has arrested Afghan and Pakistani citizens who were trying to join Islamic State (IS) jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq.
Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani said the foreigners planned to cross Iran - but did not specify how many had been arrested, or where.
Shia Iran is opposed to the Sunni extremists of IS, who have undermined its allies in Iraq and Syria.
Iran is said to be prepared to work alongside the US against IS in Iraq.
Sources in Tehran told BBC Persian last week that Iran's Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had authorised his top commander to co-ordinate the fight against IS with US, Kurdish and Iraqi forces.
However, Iran's foreign ministry denied that it would co-operate with the US against IS.
Iran has traditionally opposed US involvement in Iraq, an Iranian ally.
Recently however, both the US and Iran have offered military assistance to combat IS in Iraq, while refusing to place their troops on the ground.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is due in Jordan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to try to build regional support to counter the threat posed by Islamic State, a US state department spokeswoman said.
Fighters led by IS, an extremist group which is also known as Isis and Isil, seized a large stretch of borderless territory across Iraq and Syria this summer, declaring the land they control a caliphate.
Iran borders Iraq to the west, and Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east.
US President Barack Obama is expected to detail a plan of action against IS in a speech on Wednesday.
Mr Obama has been heavily criticised for remarks at a recent press conference when he said that the US had yet to form a strategy for dealing with IS.

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Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, Warns U.S

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's supreme leader warned the United States on Sunday that any measures taken against Tehran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ...

Leader: US seeking to expand its military presence in Iraq & Syria

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has described as QUOTE "absurd" an international conference in France aimed at countering the rising threat of the ISIL. Ayatollah Khamenei says the U-S is seeking to expand its military presence in Iraq and Syria by declaring war on the ISIL. He also says Iran has rejected repeated U-S requests for cooperation on fighting the ISIL in Iraq.

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Iran arrests 'Afghans and Pakistanis joining Islamic State'.

Iran says it has arrested Afghan and Pakistani citizens who were trying to join Islamic State (IS) jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq.
Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani said the foreigners planned to cross Iran - but did not specify how many had been arrested, or where.
Shia Iran is opposed to the Sunni extremists of IS, who have undermined its allies in Iraq and Syria.
Iran is said to be prepared to work alongside the US against IS in Iraq.
Sources in Tehran told BBC Persian last week that Iran's Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had authorised his top commander to co-ordinate the fight against IS with US, Kurdish and Iraqi forces.
However, Iran's foreign ministry denied that it would co-operate with the US against IS.
Iran has traditionally opposed US involvement in Iraq, an Iranian ally.
Recently however, both the US and Iran have offered military assistance to combat IS in Iraq, while refusing to place their troops on the ground.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is due in Jordan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to try to build regional support to counter the threat posed by Islamic State, a US state department spokeswoman said.
Fighters led by IS, an extremist group which is also known as Isis and Isil, seized a large stretch of borderless territory across Iraq and Syria this summer, declaring the land they control a caliphate.
Iran borders Iraq to the west, and Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east.
US President Barack Obama is expected to detail a plan of action against IS in a speech on Wednesday.
Mr Obama has been heavily criticised for remarks at a recent press conference when he said that the US had yet to form a strategy for dealing with IS.
The US has carried out more than 130 air strikes since early August to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting to retake territory lost to IS.
IS militants retreated from a wide area around the strategic Haditha dam in the western province of Anbar, the Iraqi army said on Monday.
The military offensive took place with the help of US air strikes - the first to have taken place outside northern Iraq.
Recent strikes have also helped Kurdish forces seize a strategic mountain overlooking the city of Mosul, which was captured by IS in June.
US air raids have also helped tribal fighters and Iraqi forces to clear IS militants from the area around Haditha dam in the western province of Anbar.

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The Debate - US Iraq Interference (P.1)

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Iran, top general saved Baghdad from falling to IS: Iraq MP

Tehran (AFP) - An Iraqi Shiite militia leader and lawmaker has credited Tehran and a powerful Iranian general with saving the Baghdad government during last summer's offensive by Islamic State group militants.
Hadi al-Ameri, a former minister who commands the Badr militia, said support from Iran and General Qassem Suleimani had been crucial after Iraqi government forces collapsed in the face of the IS assault.
"If it were not for the cooperation of the Islamic republic of Iran and General Suleimani, we would not today have a government headed by Haider al-Abadi in Baghdad," Ameri told a memorial service south of Tehran Monday for an Iranian officer killed in Iraq last month.
"It would not have existed," he said of the Iraqi government, according to the Isna and Fars news agencies.
The memorial was for Iranian Revolutionary Guards Major General Hamid Taghavi, killed by IS fighters in the Iraqi city of Samarra last month.
Suleimani, the commander of Iran's Quds Force -- the foreign wing of the Revolutionary Guards -- was also present at the memorial.
The general, who reportedly landed in Baghdad hours after IS overran the Iraqi city of Mosul in June and led the anti-jihadist counter-attack, has become the public face of Iran's deep military involvement in Iraq.
Abadi took over as Iraq's prime minister after Nuri al-Maliki, a fellow Shiite with close ties to Tehran, reluctantly stood down following the IS surge into northern Iraq.
Iran moved swiftly by arming Iraqi Kurdish fighters and supporting Baghdad with military advisers. It has also provided training for Shiite militias in a counter-offensive against the Sunni extremist group.
But Tehran has consistently denied having troops on the ground and was never invited to join the US-led military coalition that is carrying out air strikes against IS in Syria and Iraq.
Predominantly Shiite Iran has a strong interest in defending Iraq, where IS's declared aim is to topple a regime dominated by Shiites, who are regarded by the jihadists as heretics.
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updated:07 Feb 2015

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NewsX Exclusive: Baghdad siege on NewsX

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US will definitely pay price of attack on Syria: Khamenei

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned the US against attacking Syria, saying Washington will certainly pay the price for such a venture.
"We believe that the Americans are committing a folly and mistake in Syria and will accordingly take the blow and definitely suffer," Ayatollah Khamenei said in address to members of the Assembly of Experts in Tehran on Thursday.
The Leader said the main objective of the global arrogance is to dominate the Middle East, with Israel in the saddle, controlling everything.
"The goal of the recent issues regarding Syria, which started under the pretext of chemical weapons, is also the same, but the Americans are trying through rhetoric and word-manipulation to pretend that they are entering this issue for a humane goal."
Ayatollah Khamenei, however, stressed that that US politicians do not care about humanitarian issues at all.
"Americans are making humanitarian claims at a time when their track record includes [the atrocities at] Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons, silence over Saddam's use of chemical weapons in Halabja and Iranian cities, as well as the massacre of innocent people of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq."
Ayatollah Khamenei pointed out that what is going on in the region "is indeed the reaction of the global arrogance, led by the US, to the Islamic Awakening."
"The presence of the global arrogance in the region is [based on] aggression, bullying and avarice, and is aimed at crushing any resistance against this presence. The arrogance front, however, has not been and will not be able to eliminate this resistance [front]," the Leader added.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Leader referred to the ongoing turmoil in Egypt, noting that if Egypt had stood up against Israel and had not fallen for US promises, the deposed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak would not have been freed from prison and those elected by the Egyptian people put behind the bars and tried.
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[WW3] IRAN WARNS ISRAEL & US against ATTACK by flexing MILITARY MUSCLE in TEHRAN parade

TEHRAN: Iran warned Israel and the United States against any aggression, as it proudly paraded its troops and military hardware on Friday under the gaze of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and top brass.
The Tehran parade, involving thousands of military personnel, dozens of tanks and missiles borne on trucks, marked the anniversary of the start of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
Ahmadinejad, in a speech broadcast on state television, said that Iran was using "the same spirit and belief in itself" shown in that war to "stand and defend its rights" today against pressure from world powers.
Top Iranian generals said the show of military might should be digested by Israel, which in recent weeks has ramped up threats that it could hit Iranian nuclear facilities.
"We do not feel threatened by the nonsense uttered by that regime's leaders," the chief of Iran's armed forces, General Hassan Firouzabadi, told the Fars news agency, adding that Iran's response to any attack would be "immediate and unstoppable."
General Ataollah Selehi, the commander of Iran's army, told the ISNA news agency that "us holding a military parade is for deterrence and not a threat."
He and other military leaders renewed their pledge that Israel would be annihilated if attacked.
The head of the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace division in charge of missile defence, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hahjizadeh, repeated Iran's promise to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz if the Islamic republic were attacked or western sanctions halted its crude exports.
"If one day the Strait of Hormuz has no benefit for us, then we will deprive others from benefiting from it," he said.
However he added that "under current conditions, there is no problem."
Hahjizadeh also dismissed navy war games currently being held by the United States and 30 other nations in the Gulf as "no threat to us."
Iran is locked in a showdown with the UN Security Council over its controversial nuclear programme.
Iran and the UN Security Council are locked in a showdown over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.
The west, led by the United States, has tightened the vice on Iran by implementing crippling economic sanctions, while Israel -- the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear weapons state -- has underlined its threats of possible air strikes on Iranian atomic facilities, with or without US help.
In his speech, Ahmadinejad also touched on an anti-Islam film made in America by an extremist Christian group that has fuelled violent protests in parts of the Muslim world.
He said US government claims it could do nothing to censor the film was a "deception" exploiting the pretext of freedom of expression.
He called the film an Israeli-hatched plot "to divide (Muslims) and spark sectarian conflict."
Ahmadinejad implicitly referred to his often expressed opinion that the Holocaust never happened to lambast the west for perceived selective censorship.
"They stand against a question about a historical incident ... they threaten and put pressure on nations for posing the question while at the same time in regards to the obscenest insults to the human sanctities and prophets... they shout adherence to freedom (of expression)," he said.
Ahmadinejad's stance challenging the facts surrounding the killing of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II is shared by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is the country's commander-in-chief.
Early this week, Khamenei told naval cadets: "In some western countries, no one dares to question the unknown incident of the Holocaust or for that matter some of the morally obscene policies like homosexuality ... but insulting Islam and its sanctities under the pretext of freedom of expression is allowed."
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